How to Taper Pants/Jeans - Make Legs Narrower - Turn Wide Legs into Straight or Skinny 

Very thorough and clear. Really appreciate the attention to home sewists not always having all the same equipment, and showing how to still get a nice looking product.

This is probably one of the best teaching I have seen on RU-vid, with clear guidance, specially for trimming jeans. Thank you.

Very detailed and easy to follow explanation. After viewing the entire lesson, I’m encouraged to take on tapering the legs of my baggy jeans!

Love your style of teaching. Nice and clear, easy to follow, without all the audio and visual noise of so many others. Thanks!

You definitely know your stuff. Your voice is very calming and your directions are spot on.

Thank you so much for making this video!! I love how your instructions are clear, detailed and geared towards beginners who often don't have sergers or have the common knowledge/skills that experienced sewers would (ie know how to transfer the marking on one pant leg to another etc, when to leave the excess fabric on or cut it off)

Thank you so much for this straightforward video! I don’t have much sewing experience but this was very helpful! I successfully fixed my first pair of pants. They look great. 🥰💚

This was so helpful! It's so hard to find pants that fit me that I've decided to start tailoring some old ones for practice. This was way more helpful than going in unknowing. Thanks so much!💛💜🖤

Thank you, I was a hippy once and purchased wide legged full bell trousers. You inspired me. Happy new year.

This is amazing! Definitely gonna subscribe! This channel seems very thorough and informative. Glad I came across this video today!

Excellent, clear, concise...the best I've seen. Starting to sew again. this is so good- thank you. Want to see your other videos.

Just found your site and you explain things and show them very well without a lot of distracting stuff. Thanks for that I have subscribed and will look forward to learning some more cool stuff.

Such a helpful video! Love your way of teaching and explaining, very clear. Thanks!

I really needed this informative video. A few days ago I marked multiple pairs of pants and jeans. I opened the seams on some of them. The info about finishing off the jeans with a zigzag stitch off the edge is going to be especially helpful!

Thank you for an in-depth, detailed tutorial. I watched a few and this one was the easiest to follow with no skipped steps. Thank you.

Such a good produced, thorough and clear tutorial !!! Thank you so much for this :)

I've never sewn before but have always wanted to try. Now I've found a machine, this channel, and some baggy pants to try on. Thanks.

Great video and very helpful info I had never seen before! I have a few pairs of jeans that need this fix! Thanks!

This is an excellent video. Thanks so much for your clear explanation & demonstration 🙂👍

Very good video. You have the talent of presenting and breaking down a complicate project into many simple and manageable tasks. Thank you.

What a great teacher you are! thanks so much

That’s the very best tutorial I found, thanks for the very good explanations for newbies! I don’t sew much, but my mother has given me a few pairs of old jeans that fit me nicely around the waist, but I’m not a fan of those wide elephant legs 😅 I’ll try to fix them, I’m not losing much if I fail.

Very cool video. I have a ton of tactical pants that I would like to have tailored. I was watching just to see what was involved. I can appreciate why the price to have my pants taken up in the length as well as having the width of the legs taken in cost what they do. Thank you for the video, it was cool to watch the process.

Thank you! Very explicit instruction. Well done!

outstanding! thank you! Very easy to understand and just what I needed. I also love your machine:)

Thank you for sharing your talent, 1st time to try to repair my pants..

Thank you for another great tutorial. I have 3 jeans to taper so this one will come in handy for sure. Thank you for the extra tips like to the bottom cuff look like it was not altered. I appreciate you showing us how to enclose the raw edges using home sewing machine as not all of us has a serger (i wish i have one 😊). Thank you for the detailed explanation and visual so we can follow easily especially me who is new to sewing. Thank you so much and take care!

An excellent video with great tutorial & detailing skills.A good demonstration of Training & Development. 👍

This is an excellent video! It is so clear and you show every step. Thank you for uploading this for a beginner like me! I wanted to taper some cotton yoga pants and will follow this tutorial step by step. I need to take in a lot more than 2" but they only have a seam on one side, the inside of the leg, and they're not jeans but stretchy cotton/spandex bootcut yoga pants, so I will give it a try.

Excellent tutorial! Very detailed and easy to follow. Thank you!!!

Thank you so much for this very informative video. Oftentimes these kind of tutorials skip kota of parts, like how to mark the jeans and then flip the markings to the other side and if you have no experience how could you possibly know that it could be done this way. Thanks again, gonna be working on my pair of jeans today and the video really helped!

That was very helpful, now off to take in my pants! Thank you!

Thank you so much. Your videos are incredibly helpful.

No way! Hey Dani from high-school! Thanks for helping me fix my pants!

Thanks a lot ! Very precise and pleasant to watch

Very helpful--thanks! Would like a tutorial including inseam tapering as well. My previous attempts have been pretty awkward.

Great video. Definitely beyond my skill level which is “can’t sew at all”. I think I’ll just go to the tailor.

Wow, great tutorial--I learned the finer/proper way to taper! Thanks!

Premium. This video had all the answers I couldn’t find in other videos

Thank you for sharing this wonderful informative video. It is well appreciated Blessings

Sophie from South Africa I really found your way of explaining the process very easy to follow and I hope we will hear more from you!! Sophie from South Africa

You are a very good instructor.

Thank you for the great tutorial. Double threads!! Who knew?!

Well done and clearly explained. Thank you.

Excellent tutorial thanks!

Thanks for explaining this. Great channel.

Thank you so much, I've learnt something new 👏👏👏

Nice job, very informative video. Thank you 🙂

Thank you very much for this video, very useful.

Girl! You're the best!

wow, fantastic tutorial, so easy to understand, I really like your style. I tried to rip with my left hand to make this so much easier, but alas, not happening.

Great quality video!! Thanks!!! 🤗🤗

Thank you for your tutorials. Most of us sew but are not tailors and don't know all the tricks to making alterations look better. I have a ruffled hem on a dress that needs hemming. Help! Can you do a video? It's a high/low skirt bottom.

Nice tutorial!

You're talking about what I have to do straight off: take in 4". So you answered my biggest worries straight away. I can just use the outside seam, don't have to do both. But I just need to take the taper right up Great. I got softish fabric, not jeans, maybe chino ? ( I am very much a novice ) uniform pants. With drawstring elastic at the bottom. That looks like a hassle. :)

I like how you tapered these jeans.

Male 38 here🙋🏼‍♂️ Just started with sewing machine. Turned out that regular chalk did not (same with pen and pencil..) work out at all 😅 I do need that chalk you got there! ☺️ You make great tutorial videos, good job 👍🏻

Wow awesome 💕

very goood information. The young Lady is nice to listen and follow. I am subscribing Thank you Kamilla Canada

Nice job! I’m curious as to what kind of steam iron you are using and your ironing board?

Two informative points here: Doubling the threads and "walking" over the thick parts of the hem. With these practices, you can avoid breaking the needle and the thread easily. One more subscribe and thumb up for ya!

Great video! What iron do you have? I like the vintage look to it. Also what is the model of the Brother sewing machine as well. Thank you!

Great job thanks

I'd love to see the one where you taper only the thigh part of the jeans (the other pants you showed earlier in the video), was kinda expecting to see it haha

Nice. Do you also have a tutorial where you do sew the inside too to slim the pant leg ?

Thanks so much. I learned a lot. I wonder if you could do a close up of 'tying the threads together'? I can't envision how the knot would go through the needle.

Thanks for this video! Have you ever thought of actually cutting up to the point where you are taking the leg in. I thought maybe I could remove a little more from the back of the leg that way. Seems like some of the flare legged pants are much wider in the back than the front of the leg.

Many tips to show us top clas tailoring..... Thank u

Just curious to know if you have to do a heavy taper how do you recreate the top stitching?

I could see the reemergence of the tailor to be frequently utilized and a bigger part of the contemporary fashion paradigm. many reasons. global clothing market serves all countries that have varying body shapes and microtrends. meaning that you order the jeans online with the idea that theyre 'half baked' like a bake at home pizza. theyre wearable as is but theyre not 'finished' until properly tailored to fit. this also offers individual uniqueness even though everyone else has bought the same jeans/whatever. there's the 'green' trend/mandate. people can utilize older clothes buy tailoring to the modern fit or modifying it. noe I wish there was a tailor on my block. id use them once a month minimum.

What a fantastic video!! I bought new jeans that ended up being wide leg and too long. My goal is to make them straight leg..with a slight taper at the hem. So 2.5inches off the seam. However, the felled seams are on the outside seams. Can I adjust my inside inseams from crotch to where I want to shorten the hem..instead of altering the outside seams? Thank you so much for your video!

Great instructions!! I am going to taper a pair of leather, jean style pants and this way of doing it looks perfect. Do you have any tips for leather? (I do know not to iron!!) thanks

Oh my God I did this with my sewing machine back in the 80s when things went from wide legs to tapered legs and showed my friends how to reinvent their jeans

very very good video

Thank you :)

Awesome

Thanks... I have a new serger and learning to upcycle... I butchered the first pair... Now.. I can try again with more information. You must have had training. Where did you get your education?

Hi Danni are going to post anymore videos, love your videos

I am seeking your suggestion for a problem i am having.My Levis 501 '93 is too wide for me now that i am 76 yesrs old.Will it be fine if i taper it by 2 inches at the leg opening ? To what level may i taper it up the thigh without looking funny or out of proportion ? The Waist W36 fits a bit loose only.Will be highly obliged for your reply.Thank you 21:24

I have a pair of salvaged jeans do you prefer me to sew threw the salvage stitch or on the inside?I’m not taking them in that much

You're the only one who talks about the bent legs problem. I guess I do have to taper both sides. Kinda complicated.

I have alot of old jeans pants. I am lost alot of weight in the last few years can I ask how to "fix some of my old favorite ones that have alot of holes

When sewing the outer leg seam (reducing leg width) , ideally a lap seam machine is required but is there any way of sewing the outer seam when you don't have a lapseam machine?

I wish all my teachers were so good. 👍

Nice. Ty for the tutorial. I like sewing (still a newbie) but I detest ironing with a passion. So I'll just skip that part lol

What is the silcone thing to remove loose threads?

Awesome…. Subscribed

If i were taking the heam up would i do your method and then go in and hem as if i hadn't resewed the un picked part. So that the hem is still kept when i take it up? you make this look like i can do it!:D

What if my flare jeans are loose at the thighs?? The hips fit and the flare is great but the thigh area is baggy

I need to taper my jeans from mid thigh about (2 inches when folded) to just above the ankle The hem opening is 7 inches is OK. Would this be too much and look crooked if am stitching in then back out at the hem ?

lovely. thanks. :)

A question please, is there a smart mean to transform a low waist trouser to a regular/ high waist one ?

I started the same,but I am getting the same problem( I hit a brick wall),and it seem everything is absolutely correct,but my OUTER SEAM goes crooked forward. Do You have advice ,please help?!!! It seems like I have to cut more material from the back of the leg, than the front ?

Wil jou say it also in centimeters instead of only the inches

Okay I can do this... but I'm a little confused about the 2-thread part at the hem. Does it end up looking like ONE thick piece of thread? In which case why not use a thick thread to begin with? Just not sure of the goal w double thread. Will two threads jam my basic home sewing machine? Thank you!! :)

If a pants is to big for me ,should i make it smaller on the inside leg and crotch ? Or on the side seems from top to bottom ?

do you keep the flat felled seam after you taper if it has that on both outseam and inseam?

You haven't made any new videos? You are very talented seamstress and a fantastic teacher, thank you.

How do you take in the pant legs if both seams are flat-feled?

How to transform a line denim skirt into straight?